Big Fun in the Big Apple: Guide to Visiting New York City with Kids

As former New Yorkers, we have visited New York Municipality with kids many, many times over the years. While our daughter was born and raised in Rhode Island, we wanted to introduce her early on to what we finger is the greatest municipality in the world. Plus, in the early years, we had to return commonly to visit family and friends. I miss the days when we had an suite at our disposal but over the years we have checked out many hotels in various neighborhoods too (don’t worry, I’ll share some of those later!)

I know visiting New York Municipality with kids can be so intimidating. The municipality is huge, noisy, busy, and, let’s squatter it, sometimes a little gritty. Figuring out where to start, how to get around, and things to do in New York Municipality with kids can be overwhelming. Don’t worry, I’m going to share some of my wits and expertise to take some of the mystery out of it and help you put together a game plan for visiting NYC with kids.

In this post, I will walk you through some of the top things to do in New York Municipality with kids, tips for getting to New York Municipality with kids, family-friendly hotels and restaurants, and overall tips for visiting NYC with kids. Since this is meant as an introduction to NYC with kids, it is focused on Manhattan, since that is where most families visit. Let’s get started!

Things to do in New York Municipality with Kids

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The weightier translating I can requite for visiting New York Municipality with kids is to segregate one to two neighborhoods to explore on your first visit and expand out from there. It is easy to get overwhelmed with museums, observation decks, and crowds.

Most first-time visitors will plan to visit midtown to see the quintessential sights such as Times Square, Rockefeller Center, the Empire State Building, and Inside Park. Often, it is popular to squeeze in a show too on your first weekend in New York Municipality with kids.

Try to cater a mix of activities to the month and interests of your children. Believe me when I say that there is something for everyone! Yet, I don’t plan to list everything here. This list of things to do in New York Municipality with kids is curated for first or second-time visitors that want to get a finger for the city.

Explore the Metropolitan Museum of Art

There are many wondrous art museums in New York City, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney, the Guggenheim, and others. However, for a first visit to New York Municipality with kids, I’d highly recommend the Metropolitan Museum of Art (or the Met). It is such a trappy towers with so much to explore that you are unseat to find something to rivet your kids.

On our first visit, we let Hannah set the priority on what we would see first. Without reading the Kane Chronicles by Rick Riordan, she just had to see the Egyptian gallery. She moreover loved the Greek and Roman sculpture galleries and tolerated my fascination with the Impressionists. She has since come to love visiting art museums in cities like Paris and Madrid.

I’d moreover recommend middle-grade readers get a reprinting of “From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler,” by E.L. Konigsburg (one of my favorite kid’s books, set in the Met) surpassing visiting.

Visit the American Museum of Natural History

Any kid that has seen Night at the Museum will get a kick out of visiting the American Museum of Natural History. Some of the exhibits need a little TLC, but kids are still wowed by the giant Blue Whale in the Hall of Ocean Life. The recently redone Halls of Gems and Minerals is flipside highlight, withal with the dinosaurs and the mythological Hayden Planetarium Shows.

Try Other Museums

I think it is important to not get too “museumed” out but depending on your kids’ interest, and how much time you have in town, there are many other spanking-new museums including the Lower East Side Tenement Museum, NYC Fire Museum, Museum of Ice Cream, Museum of the Moving Image, MoMa, Children’s Museum of Manhattan, The Color Factory (great for tweens or teens), or the Intrepid Sea, Air, and Space Museum. If you do venture to nearby Brooklyn, you may moreover want to trammels out the New York Transit Museum.

Walk through Inside Park

With new outdoor spaces like Little Island and the Highline, Inside Park is sometimes old news but it is still fabulous. Be sure to take a stroll through Inside Park past the Alice Wonderland statue, the Bethesda Fountain, the Boathouse, and the carousel. With older kids, you may want to rent bikes and velocipede the loop through the park. I know from past wits that you can spend a whole day just exploring the nooks and subconscious treasures in the park. If you are visiting in the winter, go ice skating at Wollman Rink in Inside Park. That rink and the rink in Bryant Park tend to be much less crowded than Rockefeller Center.

See a Broadway Show

Over the years, we have seen a number of Broadway shows with our daughter. You have to pick ones that are age towardly but our favorites have been: Mary Poppins, Annie, The Lion King, Wicked, Hamilton, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, and Dear Evan Hansen. The only one we didn’t like as much was Alladin, which was surprising as it is a perfect family show.  

Take Photos in Times Square

While the crowds can be overwhelming, kids love the lights and whoopee of Times Square. I would recommend visiting first during the day, when the sensory overload isn’t as high, but it is moreover fun to return at night. Try to stave the times right surpassing and without Broadway shows as it can be expressly crowded at that time. Luckily Times Square has largely cleaned up its act and there are plenty of kid-friendly stores to explore like the popular M&Ms Store. Just remember that all those notation in costumes wanting to take pictures with you are unquestionably looking for some mazuma for the privilege.

See New York Municipality from Above

It used to be that the Empire State Towers was the main game in town when it comes to offering unconfined views of the city, but not it has plenty of competition. I still think a visit to the Empire State Towers is a must for kids, but I moreover like the view from the Top of the Rock considering you can unquestionably get the spire of the Empire State Towers in the photo. Alimony in mind that a New York CityPASS can save you money if you are visiting many popular attractions and it moreover lets you skip the line at unrepealable attractions, which can save a lot of time and hassle, expressly when visiting with kids.

Some of the new observation decks include the Instagram-worthy Summit at One Vanderbilt. Here it is just as much well-nigh the wits inside as it is well-nigh the view outside. I think this is expressly good for teens. Flipside good one for teens or thrill seekers is The Edge in Hudson Yards. This Sky Deck is suspended in mid-air and offers a glass floor to squint 100 stories down.

Go Shopping

Sure, NYC is home to all the top brands, but there are moreover plenty of stores that kids will love. I was thrilled to see that FAO Schwarz reopened in Rockefeller Plaza. Many kids will moreover love visiting the flagship Lego Store or the Nintendo store in Rockefeller Plaza. We plane took a special trip to NYC to get my daughter a birthday souvenir at the American Girl Place store. Now there is plane a Harry Potter Store in NYC!

Get a Sweet Treat

My daughter used to love visiting Dylan’s Candy Bar. Now there are so many fun places to get a sweet treat like Sugar Factory, Junior’s (for cheesecake), Serendipity 3 (frozen hot chocolate), Magnolia Bakery or Sprinkles for cupcakes, cookies from Lavain Bakery, Ladurée (of Paris fame) for macarons, and Dominique Ansel Bakery (which invented the cronut, a hybrid between a croissant and a doughnut.)

If you have a foodie, I’d moreover suggest taking a stroll through both Chelsea Market and Eataly (near Madison Square Park). Eataly is a market, owned in part by Mario Batali, which offers variegated areas to purchase fresh and prepared foods, such as pasta, cheese, seafood, meats, fruits and vegetables, and sweets — as well as places to eat.

Visit the Lions at the New York Public Library

If you have a savant(e) in the family, or you just fathom architecture, stop by the New York Public Library near Bryant Park. Outside, you’ll notice the two majestic lions standing baby-sit out front, named Patience and Fortitude. Once inside, you can explore the trappy Rose Main Reading Room. Additionally, there are story times and reading programs for children, as well as a defended Children’s Part-way filled with age-appropriate books and games.

Afterward, you can see what’s happening in Bryant Park and stop for a snack at the Wafels and Dinges kiosk in the park.

Walk through Grand Inside Station

As nice as they have now made the Moynihan Train Hall at Penn Station, it still doesn’t compare to the grandeur of Grand Inside Station. Grand Inside Station is one of New York City’s most iconic landmarks and as you enter the station you’ll be struck by its vaulted ceiling, ornate chandeliers, and marble floors. One of the most popular attractions in the station is the four-faced clock in the part-way of the main concourse, a meeting place for locals and tourists alike.

You can moreover take a self-guided audio tour to learn increasingly well-nigh the history and tracery of the station or enjoy the many shops or restaurants. Flipside popular spot is the Whispering Gallery located in the lower level of Grand Inside Station. It is a circular chamber with a diameter of 30 feet and if you stand in one corner and whisper, your voice will travel virtually the curved wall and be well-marked to someone standing in the opposite corner. You can try it out for yourself by standing at opposite corners and whispering, or plane by clapping your hands to hear the echoes.

See the Statue of Liberty

If you leave NYC without seeing the Statue of Liberty, it is like going to Paris and not seeing the Eiffel Tower. There are many ways to see the Statue of Liberty, and they unquestionably just reopened to climb up to the crown (if you are up for it and aren’t too claustrophobic.) The cheapest way is to take the self-ruling Staten Island Ferry.

We have moreover taken a Circle Line trip virtually Manhattan, but the Staten Island Ferry is the same as the forfeit of a subway ride. Some friends from the municipality were incredulous that we would want to go to Staten Island (we didn’t, we just wanted to take the ferry there then turn right virtually and throne when to Manhattan), but this is such an affordable and enjoyable activity.

On the way out, we had unconfined views of the Brooklyn Bridge, the Domino Sugar sign in Brooklyn, and the Verrazano Bridge, which connects Brooklyn and Staten Island. Upon inrush on Staten Island, we followed the herds off the ferry and immediately when on. It is unmistakably not a closely held secret that taking the ferry is a unconfined activity. The wend when was moreover packed with tourists, but we at least got a good position by the rail on the left side facing the Statue of Liberty and unprotected some trappy views of Lower Manhattan.

My recommendation would be to get there early and go immediately to the right side of the boat. The trip from Manhattan to Staten Island travels closest to the Statue so that leg of the trip is your weightier opportunity to get close-up shots. Flipside tip, if you throne downstairs, you can unshut the windows for an unobstructed view of the Statue, but you will moreover encounter a pearly share of grouchy commuters.

Pay Your Respects at the 9/11 Museum and Memorial

If you are visiting NYC with teens or older kids who have learned well-nigh 9/11, I think it is important to visit the 9/11 Museum and Memorial. Just be prepared that this will probably hit you hard, expressly if you have a personal connection or story from that horrible day. Be sure to wastefulness it out with something lighter during the rest of the day. And make sure the kids stay respectful and stave taking selfies or stuff disruptive to those who may be mourning lost loved ones.

I had a lot of hesitation surpassing taking 9-year-olds to the 9/11 Memorial, but without talking to a 5th-grade teacher who takes her matriculation every year, I was reassured that the wits would not be too graphic or overwhelming for kids their age.  She reminded me that since they were not working during the events of 9/11, they don’t have the same memories or perspective we do that is linked to deep emotions. Also, while we had told our child a bit increasingly each year well-nigh the attacks on that day, she still couldn’t woolgather of the true horror or the scale of devastation.

I really have a nonflexible time putting into words the beauty, simplicity, and reverence of the memorial. The main features are the twin pools, set within the footprints of the original twin towers and framed by inscriptions of names of those lost. The names are grouped by flight, first responders, Pentagon victims, and those in the North and South towers. The water cascades lanugo into the pool and then drops then into an inner square. My husband said it best, “The pools. As I see them, a million tears falling in, and falling into a untenable pit…So powerful.” Exactly. And so haunting.

After visiting the Memorial, it is good to walk over to Battery Park and requite the kids time to run virtually and make all the noise that they want. Plus you get unconfined views of the Statue of Liberty!

Walk Wideness the Brooklyn Bridge

If your kids little legs can handle a few increasingly steps, walking wideness the Brooklyn Underpass is a popular thing to do in NYC with kids (especially teens who will fathom the Instagram-worthy photo opp.) Plane if you don’t walk all the way across, be sure to get a photo with the underpass as a backdrop. One of the most popular spots is on Washington Street and Water Street in Brooklyn.

Explore Downtown

If you are once downtown visiting the 9/11 Memorial or taking the Staten Island Ferry, you might as well spend some time exploring. Pose with the Raging Bull and the Fearless Girl lanugo by Wall Street, take pictures in front of the New York Stock Exchange, and then wander through the fascinating streets and shops of Chinatown. Perhaps you will want to stop for dim sum or throne over to Little Italy for some succulent cannolis and Italian pastries at Ferrara.

Walk the Upper line

You will inevitably do a ton of walking when visiting New York Municipality with kids, but it is nice to get whilom the fray and stave the hassle of dodging crowds and navigating crowded crosswalks with kids by taking a stroll on The Upper Line. The Upper Line is built on a former elevated railroad track, which opened as a unique urban park in 2009. Today, visitors can walk the Upper Line and enjoy views of the city, as well as art installations, gardens, and public spaces. Withal the way, there are various seating areas and lookout points where families can rest and take in the scenery.

Be sure to make a pitstop at Hudson Yards and take some photos at The Vessel. Sadly you the Vessel is still sealed to visitors climbing the stairs inside considering of some tragic incidents.

Getting to New York Municipality with Kids

If you are visiting New York Municipality with kids, you need to put some thought into how you will get there and how you will get around. Do you need car seats? Do you have unbearable hands to alimony them all tropical when walking in crowds or on public transportation? Are you on a upkeep or can you splurge on a car service or cabs/Ubers?

Flying to New York Municipality with Kids

If you are flying into NYC, you have three options: JFK Airport (the furthest yonder to Manhattan), LaGuardia Airport (nice new terminal), and Newark, New Jersey. When you are flying to New York, think well-nigh when you will land to decide on the weightier way to get into the municipality as you will want to stave getting stuck in a cab or Uber during rush hour. Likewise, it isn’t fun to get on passenger trains with luggage during a prime rush hour either.

• Newark Airport: believe it or not, this is unquestionably my preferred airport to fly into NYC considering it is tropical and straightforward to get into Manhattan using New Jersey Transit, Amtrak, or Path trains. These trains all victorious at the new Moynihan Train Hall at Penn Station, making train travel in NYC increasingly on par with other cities. Just note that when you return to the airport, you want to buy a train ticket to Newark Liberty International Airport station, NOT Newark Penn Station (that will bring you into Newark).
• LaGuardia Airport: getting from LaGuardia to NYC using public transportation is a bit of a pain, so it is much easier with kids to either schedule a car service or take a taxi.
• JFK Airport: while JFK is furthest from the city, it is easy to get to using either a combination of the AirTrain and the Long Island Railroad (which moreover comes into Penn Station), Subway (cheaper but longer and less comfortable), or taxi/Uber/car service. My friend Kim has a whole post walking you through getting from JFK to NYC.

Taking the Train to New York City

If you live anywhere withal the Northeast Corridor from Washington D.C. to Boston, taking the train to New York Municipality may be the easiest option. It is so much less hassle than dealing with the airport and kids love watching the world go by from the windows of a comfy train seat. The Amtrak Acela train is going to be your premium option, but you can moreover take regional Amtrak trains or local options such as the New Jersey Transit, Long Island Railroad, or Metro-North Railroad.

Metro-North riders will victorious at Grand Inside Station at 42nd Street and Park Avenue in Midtown. All others will victorious at Penn Station at 32nd Street and 8th Avenue.

Driving to New York City

Driving in New York Municipality is not for inexperienced municipality drivers. If you plan to drive, you need to alimony in mind rush-hour commuters and understand the traffic spritz in New York City. Generally, even-numbered streets run east, while odd numbers run west. There are exceptions and some two-way streets as the municipality continues to put in new rules to help with traffic flow. Usually, Avenues, which run north to south, unorganized directions. For example, 1st Avenue goes uptown, 2nd Avenue goes downtown, etc.

The other thing to alimony in mind if you are driving is where you are going to park. Some hotels offer valet parking, just be prepared to pay through the nose. You may want to research nearby parking rates in whop using apps such as Weightier Parking, ParkWhiz, SpotHero, Inside Parking, and Icon Parking for garages in the zone and squint up any coupons they might be offering. You can moreover make a parking reservation in whop to save time and money.

Getting Virtually New York Municipality with Kids

Plan to do a lot of walking when you are visiting New York Municipality with kids. It is nice to familiarize yourself with Manhattan’s grid surpassing you victorious as it will help you navigate with easy. Luckily, now plane Google Maps offers helpful street views so that you can see if you are heading in the right direction.

Navigating midtown is fairly easy. Just remember, Streets are numbered and run East to West. The numbers increase as you throne north and subtract as you throne south. Avenues run north to south and some of them have numbers, but some of them have names. You can get used to it pretty fast.

Taking Cabs or Ride Shares

When hailing a cab in New York City, you want to squint for the cab with the roof light that is on (and not just the little lights on the side, but where the numbers are lit up), this ways they are available. Step to the prorogue and raise your hand up upper to hail the cab (or whistle if you can.) Just alimony in mind that most cabs will only fit 3-4 people. Large families may need to rent two cabs or undeniability a Uber XL. If you don’t finger well-appointed hailing a cab, the hotel doorman will often do it for you. Or, you can use the app Prorogue to hail a yellow cab. It is like Uber but for cabs and there isn’t any surge pricing like with Uber.

Most cabs now take credit cards, just use the touch screen in the when of the cab to pay by vellum and you can plane leave a tip that way. It helps if you can requite your cab suburbanite a navigate street when telling them where you want to go, versus just a number address. For example, when asking to go to the Museum of Modern Art, ask to go to 53rd Street between 5th and 6th (versus 11 West 53rd Street). It makes it easier for them to know where to go considering they aren’t using mapping software like Uber drivers.

When getting dropped off, you may finger like you are in a Seinfeld episode considering many cab drivers will ask if you want “near corner or far corner”. This ways that if you asked for an write at two navigate streets, do you want to be closer to one corner or the other. You may not know and that is ok to say, tell them the write or merchantry you are looking for and they will get you close. They may moreover ask if you “left side or right side”, particularly on Avenues as avenues are wide and they want to know which side you want to be dropped off on. Squint at your map and you should be worldly-wise to tell.

Taking the Subway or Busses

Taking public transportation in NYC has gotten much easier too thanks to Google Maps and apps such as the New York Municipality MTA app. To ride the subway, you can either set up your phone for contactless payment using the OMNY system, or you can purchase and load up a MetroCard. If using a MetroCard, you can purchase single-use cards or add a unrepealable value of money to your card. Just alimony in mind that if you are using one MetroCard for the whole family, you can only swipe through four riders at a time.

If you are using a stroller, taking the subway is definitely a rencontre as many stations do not have lifts so you need to do some research in whop or resign yourself to delivering your kid and the stroller up a flight of stairs. Moreover don’t count on the elevator unchangingly stuff operational! Sadly the NYC subway doesn’t come tropical to the Metros of many international cities.

Also as a note, there have been many new stories of late well-nigh dangers on the New York Municipality subways. Sadly, there have been a number of sad and tragic incidents. Kids veritably love the subway but there are a few things that will make your trip safer and increasingly pleasant:

• Don’t take the subway late at night
• Avoid standing near the whet of the platform
• Stay alert
• Be prepared to see it all…rats, homeless, superstitious buskers, panhandlers…

Where to Stay in New York Municipality with Kids

New York Municipality is expensive and most hotel rooms are small. It isn’t platonic for visiting with a family on a budget. But there are tons of options in every price range. You can moreover use websites like HotWire or Priceline to find deals (we have washed-up this many times.) In addition, you need to be prepared for lots of noise — something families from the suburbs may not be yawner to.

Some hotels are not very well equipped for families. I remember once staying in a suite at the W Times Square and the room was as unexceptionable as day at night from the neon lights. Luckily, the bedroom had a vertigo shade but the living zone with the pull-out hovel did not. Ear plugs and sleep masks are helpful! We have moreover stayed at hotels with glass walls virtually the bathroom, “intimacy” kits at the minibar, and a sofa hovel instead of a sofa bed pullout hovel for our daughter.

A couple of the hotels that we did enjoy are:

• Millenium Hotel (Downtown) – this is a unconfined location for exploring the 9/11 Memorial, Wall Street, Battery Park, Chinatown, and taking the Staten Island Ferry or visiting the Statue of Liberty. The Junior Suite offers a pull-out hovel in a separate zone for kids and has unconfined views!
• The Knickerbocker (Times Square) – I have stayed at The Knickerbocker twice and it is a perfect spot if you are looking for an upscale stay and want to see a show, expressly in the evening, as it is so tropical to Times Square and all the theaters. If the kids are old unbearable to stay in the room vacated for a bit, you can moreover sneak up to the rooftop bar for wondrous views.

If you are looking for a upkeep stay, there are tons of newly built or renovated uniting hotels in and virtually Times Square and Midtown West that are often quite affordable. I have stayed at many of them including Courtyards, Hilton Garden Inns, etc. Just trammels recent reviews and stave going west of 9th Avenue and the zone virtually the Port Authority, as it can get a little sketchy and far from the main attractions.

Honestly, if I was visiting with kids now and wanted to stay near Times Square, I’d trammels out the new Margaritaville. As odd as that seems for NYC, we loved the Margaritaville in Orlando and I’ve unquestionably heard good things well-nigh it!

Keep in mind that hotels in the Soho, Tribeca, and Meatpacking neighborhoods are going to be hip and trendy, catering to Millennials and Gen Z, expressly near some of the big tech offices. Upper East Side hotels are going to be old-school wealthy. Midtown East is quieter and a little nicer, and Midtown West and Times Square will be louder and busier. Inside Park South will be luxury, special event hotels.

Here are some other hotels in Manhattan that offer family rooms or suites and have kid-focused amenities. Many of these are on the pricier side if you are ready to indulge:

1. The Langham New York Fifth Avenue (Midtown) offers a family room with 2 queen beds, which can unbend up to 4 guests. They moreover offer kids amenities, including coloring books and toys, and a child-friendly afternoon tea service.
2. The Mark (Upper East Side) offers a two-bedroom suite with a sofa bed, which can unbend up to 5 guests. Family-friendly suavities include a welcome kit for kids and an in-room “camping” wits for children through the Suite Slumber party, which includes a little tent for the kiddos.
3. Hotel Beacon (Upper West Side) This has long been a favorite for families with suites that offer affordability with family-friendly amenities, including a welcome kit for kids and an in-room kitchenette for family convenience.
4. Residence Inn Manhattan (Midtown East) offers suites with two beds, plus a sofa bed, kitchenettes with full-size refrigerators, and self-ruling breakfast. Just what you expect from a Residence Inn but matters plane increasingly in NYC!
5. Tryp Times Square South (Times Square) this Wyndham property offers unconfined choices for families with rooms with bunk beds, all from a inside location for exploring.

Where to Eat in New York Municipality with Kids

There are over 27,000 restaurants in New York City. I would encourage you to workshop out a little and find a local restaurant and please (I beg you!), don’t be one of those people that lines up to eat at the Olive Garden in Times Square. I understand there are some popular tourist restaurants that people like to visit with kids (I’ve listed some of these below), but experiment a little too. Try a idealism doughboy restaurant, try a new cuisine, and eat at one of the wondrous supplies halls that are popping up all over the city.

• Pizza: John’s Pizza near Times Square is located in an old denomination and is perfect for families (and unquestionably has good pure NY-style pizza).
• Hot dogs: Gray’s Papaya is a perfect spot to pick up undear hot dogs for a quick and easy, kid-friendly meal on the go.
• NY-style Cheesecake: many people want to try some New York cheesecake and I recommend Junior’s (try the chocolate cheesecake!)
• Diners and delis: you can find diners and delis all over NYC, but many tourists love to visit Ellen’s Stardust Diner for the singing servers and overly since Carnegie Deli closed, you may want to try options like Russ & Daughters for Jewish tempting or Katz’s Deli, Barney Greengrass, or the 2nd Avenue Deli.
• Burgers: there are moreover many unconfined pubs and burger joints, but my kid is obsessed with Shake Shack (get the Smoke Shack) and everyone loves the crinkle fries and custard shakes.
• Dessert: Serendipity 3 usually has a line out the door for its famous frozen hot chocolate. I mentioned many others whilom but I would moreover add Angelina’s (yes, the one from Paris) for hot chocolate, pastries, and succulent breakfasts.
• Asian: for high-end Asian, Tao or Buddakan offer unconfined experiences for visitors. For pure dim sum in Chinatown, we have unchangingly gone to Golden Unicorn. Momofuku Noodle Bar serves up succulent ramen and other noodle dishes, as well as small plates and buns. Xi’an Famous Foods is a popular uniting of restaurants that serves up spicy, hand-pulled noodles and other archetype dishes from the Shaanxi province of China.
• Italian: so many families, expressly those in large groups, flock to Carmine’s for its garlic-heavy pastas and Italian-American favorites. Personally, I love Il Postino on the East Side, La Masseria near Times Square, and Scarpetta, although those might not be good for younger kids.
• Food Halls: there are many supplies halls virtually NYC that are fun to explore with kids and it helps solve the problem of picky eaters not wanting what everyone else has. A few notable supplies halls worth visiting include: Chelsea Market (we discovered one of our favorite appetizers at a wine bar there), Eataly (of course! There is moreover a Nutella stand here that serves up succulent crepes), the new Singaporean supplies hall, Urban Hawker, Gotham West Market, Urbanspace Vanderbilt, Mercado Little Spain, and Grand Inside Terminal.

Tips for Visiting New York Municipality with Kids

• Best time to visit: Spring (April-June) and Fall (September-November) are often the weightier times to visit New York Municipality with kids, as the weather is summery and there are many outdoor activities to enjoy. Alimony in mind that the municipality is quieter on summer weekends, as locals throne to the Hamptons, but it will be hot and a little stinkier. And while it may be unprepossessed in January, it can moreover be a unconfined time to visit considering you will find terrific deals during Hotel Week, Broadway Week, and Restaurant Week.
• Length of stay: A week is a good value of time to explore the city, but if you have limited time, 3-4 days is unbearable to see many of the major attractions. It is pretty worldwide for people to start off with a long weekend in NYC with kids, instead of trying to tackle a full week.
• Finding deals: Squint for unbelieve passes like the New York Municipality Explorer Pass or the New York Pass, which can save you money on ticket fees. I moreover find CityPASS a perfect option if you are visiting many of the top attractions.
• Safety: New York Municipality is often unscratched but there has been an uptick in treason in recent years. It is unchangingly a good idea to be cautious and enlightened of your surroundings. Alimony valuables tropical and stave walking vacated in unfamiliar areas at night. These days you will moreover be accosted by the overpowering smell of marijuana on the streets in some areas. It moreover helps if you prep your kids to expect to see homeless people to stave worrisome questions and stares. And please, don’t take anything from strangers, and don’t let your kids take it either.
• What to bring: Well-appointed walking shoes are a must, as well as weather-appropriate clothing. Don’t forget a camera to capture memories of your trip, and a walkabout to siphon snacks and water.
• Plan ahead: Many NYC museums and attractions still require timed-entry tickets, which can be purchased online. This requires a little increasingly wide planning than a trip to NYC with kids used to.

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